As a movie fan, one of my favorite hobbies is looking at where projects go left instead of right. For each movie that gets made, there are ten more that are stuck in development hell, often different versions of what finally reaches the screen. So it is with Black Widow, who came achingly close to [...]

Despite Hunger Games being set in a fantasy dystopian future Gary Ross has managed to make it feel like Katniss, Peeta and the other characters are real people plucked from the Appalachians–circa 1935. It’s just a brief trailer but it strongly hints at the realism Ross will be employing and the heavy-duty stylizing of the [...]

Just this past week I was bemoaning the trend of the last twenty years wherein traditional “damsels in distress” were turned into fierce Amazons and one tired genre trope was traded for another. I made a big mistake in forgetting Kristen Stewart’s titular character in the new Snow White and the Huntsman. It looks like [...]

Someone has it out for Anna Faris. That’s my story. How else do you explain a pretty harmless girl-oriented comedy (girl-com?) like What’s Your Number? ending up the center of a controversy over feminism, comedy, Hollywood, female actors, and all sorts of other stuff above the average rom-com paygrade. But out of all the analysis [...]

Act of Vengeance (aka Rape Squad) is such an astoundingly obvious example of the time. It’s this movie that desperately wants to be a fun exploitation flick and a call to action for women. At one point the five victims of a serial rapist gather to plan a rape counseling service and anti-rape squad. Awesome [...]

After directing Superman XXX: A Porn Parody, porn director/comic fanboy Axel Braun (a man who must have the most interesting business cards ever) set his sights on Spider-Man, to create something that’s somewhere between fan film and sex tape. It turns out Grant Morrison was wrong; when geeks get power, you don’t get Hitler, you [...]

I read Jurassic Park  when I was ten because dinosaurs were the best and because even at ten I was an informed little theater goer and wanted to have an idea of what I was seeing. A week later Jurassic Park hit theaters and I was ready. My dad drove us out to the theater [...]

In another example of my brilliance (and a future as a casting director) Deadline via Badass Digest has confirmed Anne Hathaway will play Fantine. Fantine sings the Act One showstopper “I Dreamed A Dream.” Before Castle in the Clouds (fuck that song) or One More Day or anything else there is her dying and singing [...]

I’m a huge fan of The Thing. The ending is perfect, the beginning is perfect, the story has been told. Naturally, the idea of a remake, a sequel, or a video game tie-in sounded like a crock of shit. Which is why I was a little bit interested in the idea of a prequel centering [...]

I am incredibly jazzed about Glenn Close’s newest flick, wherein she plays a lady pretending to a dude in order to work as a Butler in a fancy-pants hotel in Dublin in the 19th century. I KNOW, right? It’s getting some flack from the likes of Variety for being a bit dry and a bit [...]